Lead Full Stack Engineer - Active SC, AWS
Posted Today by Hays Specialist Recruitment
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
London, UK
Summary: The Lead Full Stack Engineer role involves joining a consultancy to support a critical public sector programme, requiring active SC clearance and expertise in full-stack development. The position emphasizes leadership in engineering practices and collaboration with clients and teams in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should have strong experience in cloud solutions, particularly AWS, and modern development technologies. The role is remote and classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and coach engineering teams, promoting good engineering practices.
- Design, build, and maintain full-stack solutions for public-sector digital services.
- Make technical decisions and ensure scalable, secure designs.
- Communicate effectively with clients and delivery teams.
- Develop using modern Front End and Back End technologies.
- Build and operate solutions in cloud environments, primarily AWS.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Lead Full Stack Engineer in the Public Sector.
- Active SC Clearance.
- Experience leading engineering teams and guiding technical decision-making.
- Expertise in full-stack development and cloud solutions.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Hands-on development experience with technologies like TypeScript, React, Node/Java, APIs, and databases.
- Strong experience with AWS and modern DevOps practices.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Lead Full Stack Engineer - Active SC, AWS
£Market Rate - Inside IR35
Remote
6 months
My client is an instantly recognisable consultancy who require Lead Full Stack Engineers to join a business-critical programme for an end client within the public sector.
Key Requirements:
- Proven commercial experience working as a Lead Full Stack Engineer within the Public Sector.
- Active SC Clearance.
- Previous experience leading and coaching engineering teams, promoting good engineering practices, guiding technical decision-making, and contributing to the developer community.
- Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining full-stack solutions for public-sector digital services, owning features from development through release.
- The ability to select appropriate technologies and patterns, decide when and how software should be built, and ensure scalable, secure designs.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with clients and delivery teams in a fast-paced, contract-driven environment with high interaction and accountability.
- Hands-on development using modern Front End and Back End technologies (eg TypeScript, React, Node/Java, APIs, databases).
- Strong experience building and operating solutions in cloud environments (primarily AWS), using infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
Nice to have:
- An openness to Temp to Perm.
- Immediate availability.
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